Michael Laxer
Kerch: Hero City of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
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Michael Laxer
- Nov 6
- 1 min
War Monuments and Sights of Soviet Kiev 1975 -- 16 Vintage Photographs
As we noted in a previous post, November 6 is the anniversary of the liberation of Kiev from the Nazis by the Red Army in 1943. It was...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 22
- 4 min
Tallinn liberated by Red Army, September 22, 1944
The Estonian capital of Tallinn was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army on September 22, 1944. Among the Red Army heroes who...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943: Video
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Sevastopol: Hero City of the USSR
Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 1
- 3 min
Freedom from War Coalition: Hiroshima Day remembrance and information picket, August 6
Hiroshima Day: The Freedom From War Coalition invites you to join us in solemn remembrance of the bombing of Japan’s cities at the close...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 31
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #997
Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Imants Sudmalis, Liepaja, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #997 From the Great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 30
- 15 min
Battle of Kursk remembered, July 1983
Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #995
Å Ä·aune Memorial to the Red Army Soldiers and Partisans at the Warriors' Cemetery, Å Ä·aune, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #995 A...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #992
Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #985
A delegation of Soviet collective farmers delivering tanks manufactured using their donated money to Red Army soldiers in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Odessa: Hero City of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 30
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
- May 19
- 2 min
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #937
Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 7 min
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 5 min
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
- May 8
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #936
Long Live the United Front of the Freedom-Loving Peoples Against the Fascist Invaders!, Soviet war poster, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #936 Poster...
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